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Thanks Russell.

I'll have to get home first, but I'll try and remember to put up one of Detman101 and Jets60 in my backyard.  Man, that was fun.   

- Zurf

I'll be darned.  That was completely not obvious. 

Here's another one to test whether it's a fluke.  My buddy Herschel at a jam session.  If you have an exceptional memory, you may remember him as the object of ridicule in one of my very, very few songs, "Herschel's Campfire Song."  Dave's behind him on bass.  He doesn't look the type, but that guy is one heck of a metalhead bassist. 

And the last member of the "quartet". 

- Zurf

I knew it wouldn't work.

She is a lovely hippie chick, too, Selso.  Congratulations on finding a good one to share your life with. 

- Zurf

There's always the possibility that I'm an idiot. 

- Zurf

Unfortunately, nothing about the Ovation basses on the site.  My Ovation is a solid-body bass. 

- Zurf

I just watched Ghost Rider on TV last night.  Entertaining.  For those who don't know the movie, it is an adaptation of a comic book.  The main character is a stunt motorcycle rider who sold his soul to protect his father, who continued to ruin his life anyway.  But, because he sold his soul for another out of love rather than for his own gain, it's a glitch in the "contract." 

So, basically, this stunt rider's "payment" is that he is Satan's bounty hunter.  Whenever a demon or soul escapes from Hell, he has to go round it up and return it.  But because he's also a "free" person because of the glitch, he can use the powers for other purposes too.  It's very complicated with it's own set of rules in the bizarre way that long-running comic book series can be.

The movie was a pretty good adaptation of the comics.  And yes, I read them. 

Now, in the movie there was one scene where the Ghost Rider came to the aid of a young woman being mugged.  The next day, the young woman gave a description of the person who assisted her to a TV reporter.  "He was tall, and skinny.  Bony really.  His face was a skull and it was on fire."  "On fire, you say.  How much fire?"  "It was like <chhhhhhhhhhhh> all out to here. <She put her hands about 18" away from the top of her head>  It was a rad look, but it looked good on him.  He totally pulled it off."  I love that scene.  She wasn't freaked out at all by a flaming skeleton riding a motorcycle of chromed bones and chain, just thought it was "a rad look." 

I like the comic book movies.  Never have seen Silver Surfer or The Punisher (either version, Dolph Lundgren or the new guy).  X-men was OK, but I thought Spiderman totally nailed it.  I haven't seen Spiderman 3 yet to see how they pulled off the whole evil Spiderman thing.  I've seen clips and it looks COOL. 

I hope they do Flash sometime, as he was always one of my favorites.  He just didn't give a rip and get all caught up in the "oh dear, what a responsibility, but my desires are torn" angst garbage.  He was having fun abusing the privilege of his powers in silly ways, like playing tennis with himself and seeing how many images of himself dressed in different outfits he could capture in a single shutter release. 

- Zurf

Eddie Money "Take Me Home Tonight" maybe?

If so, you have my sincere condolences for having it stuck in your head.  You have my permission to go smack whoever did this to you right in the back of the head.  Just once though. 

- Zurf

Handsome face?  I think you've got me confused with another Zurf there, Russell.

I don't know if it's used elsewhere, but here in Virginia the state police are running and ad campaign on drunk driving (they're against it, just to be clear).   Anyway, they've been having pictures of folks in their cars filled up with booze, the cops stop them, they "perps" roll down their window and all the beer or wine or whatever pours out.  Then there's a voice over, "You can't hide it.  If you drink and drive, we will find you and you'll go to jail where you'll meet Bubba and his kin."  Or some such.  Anyway, they've got one with a guy on a motorcycle wearing a full face helmet with beer filling it about half way.  At the end of the ad, they show the guy getting his picture taken "downtown" with the voice over and threats of meeting ill-tempered and amorous hillbillies.  The guy getting his picture took.  I'd swear it's RUSSELL!!  The funniest part (to me, because I like irony) is that Russell isn't even a drinking man!  Whether or not he rides a motorcycle, I don't know. 

- Zurf

p.s.  I made up the part about Bubba and the amorous hillbillies.  But now that I think about it, Bubba and the Amorous Hillbillies would be a great name for a band.

Trigger belongs in the Smithsonian.  It is a national treasure.  Willie's playing and reach far exceeds Country.  He's a piece of America, plain and simple.  Shoot, he can't even get ON country stations anymore unless he's doing a duet with a modern country star.  Somehow or other, Willie and Johnny Cash and a few other staples of country music are now considered Alt Country.  Come to think of it, though, if anyone is "alt", it's Willie, so I guess there's some justice in it after all. 

- Zurf

Zguitar -

You're getting pretty picky about your handouts.  If you've been surfing Chordie songs and other sites for hours each night looking for songs withing your skill level by artists you like and you can't find them, then you've got a couple choices left.  You're going to have to get less picky about what you like, or you're going to have to go old school and get the skills to play by ear (meaning practicing basics like technique, scales, arpeggios, and inversions, and ear training for pitch recognition) or you're going to have to spend some money buying beginner arrangements of artists you like from a music store or amazon.  Given the pickiness you're displaying on free chord charts, I'd recommend going to a music store to be sure the sheets satisfy you if that's what you choose.  By now, there's a few generations of guitarists who've learned to play by mimicking albums.  It can be done, but it takes some special skills that you'll have to learn and some real strong desire and the willingness to make a lot of mistakes and sound like crap for a while, and apparently to play "Cat Scratch Fever" for hours on end at high volume. 

Please note that I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being picky.  To the contrary, I think it's great that you know what you want your sound to be and don't wish to compromise.  However, given that, it does limit your selection of tools somewhat.  You've made a good solid effort on using free chord charts and it doesn't seem to be working out for you.  Time to try some other things.  Unfortunately for you, those other things are harder and take more dedication.  On the flip side, you're more likely to wind up sounding the way you want to sound.

- Zurf

Congratulations on the new guitar.  I darned near bought two of them the other night, but if I had my wife would make sure I had a new address.  It would be: "the shed behind 123 Our Street". 

- Zurf

If you want to sound like the records, then no songs are easy.  That's the cold, hard facts.  If what you are asking for are easy songs that can be played by a beginner who by definition is not skilled in technique or advanced in knowledge, and on which that beginner can sound like a seasoned recording artist with a band full of seasoned recording artists backing him up performing in a studio with a seasoned sound engineer, then you are asking for the impossible. 

If you are asking for a song that the chords can be strummed and the lyrics sung in something that's recognizable, then there are many of those.  These are what are usually recommended as beginner songs.  They are really beginner arrangements of songs. 

As Alvee33 says, one step at a time. 

If you want to learn to play songs rather than learning to play guitar, go to Youtube and search on Gold Hat Studios.  He has a lot of song lessons that will teach you to play arrangements of songs suitable for solo acoustic guitar players and many of them are appropriate for a beginner.  You will NOT be able to go through the song lesson one time and be able to play it.  The instructor does an excellent job of teaching the techniques to play that particular song, but you're going to have to pay attention and hit rewind a lot to really practice and nail down each little bit of technique.  If that's how you want to learn to play, and there's nothing wrong with that, then I recommend Gold Hat Studio's on-line lessons.  I use them myself and find them highly informative.

- Zurf